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The Spectator | January 29, 2005| | Copyright

The government ardently denies that its proposal to allow 24-hour drinking will lead to streets filled with drunks. It then legislates to, er, deal with streets filled with drunks. Nothing could more perfectly exemplify Plato's brilliant image of law-makers as people 'slashing away at a kind of Hydra' - the many-headed monster which grew two heads for every one chopped off.

In his Republic, Plato (429-347 BC) argues that it is the mark of a badly governed society to need constant rafts of legislation. He likens such societies to the sick, who imagine that they will get better by stuffing ...

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